Mr. V's Journey To Recovery

As you know my dad was scheduled to have his tracheostomy tomorrow morning but SURPRISE SURPRISE it was done this early afternoon. How did my mom find out you say? Well when she went to go see my dad around 11:00 am they told her she couldn't because they are doing procedures right now. The receptionist could not elaborate. FINALLY my mom saw him at 2:15 pm and she saw that they had performed the tracheostomy. The New Nurse (substituting for Nurse Sunshine) told my mom that they had performed the tracheostomies here and that 3 other patients had to get them too, that's why they wouldn't allow anyone back in STICU. I got off work at 1:30 and got here by 3:00 and was able to see my dad with my mom. He was doing fine, he looks better not so bloated. His heart rate is going down and they are trying to make it go down even more with some medicine. New Nurse was nice enough to call at the front desk to let us know the doctors were doing their rounds. So thank you New Nurse. Dr. Quentin spoke to us and said that when he was examining my dad earlier he said my dad's name,and my dad tried to open his eyes. He couldn't do it just yet but he was trying. He said that people who are older it may take a while for them to wake up once they are off the sedatives and especially since he had two surgeries yesterday it may be longer. Dr. Quention also said that they may do a cat scan on his chest because he is draining quite a bit of fluid from there so they will assess from their if they will clean his chest or let it drain some more. I think it made my mom's day when he said "He tried to open his eyes." So we are just praying he stabilizes more so that way they can go ahead and tend to his bones. We are so thankful he is progressing.